PROVIDENCE — An unlicensed contractor nicknamed “Amigo” is accused of trying to hire a hitman to torture and kill another contractor and a man he thought was an employee, claiming they owed him $8,500.
While under surveillance by the FBI Rhode Island Safe Streets Task Force, the acquaintance and Vinas met in the parking lot of a Family Dollar store in Providence. The acquaintance secretly recorded a conversation with Vinas, who offered $3,000 for a hitman to kill ...
The owner of Vinas Construction in Providence is being held without bail in federal custody. PROVIDENCE — An unlicensed contractor nicknamed “Amigo” is accused of trying to hire a hitman to torture and kill another contractor and a man he thought was an employee, claiming they owed him $8,500.
Agustin Vinas, 51, owner of Vinas Construction in Providence, is being held without bail in federal custody, after an investigation that found he offered to pay $3,000 to kill both men, and another $500 to make the bodies “disappear,” the U.S. Attorney’s office announced Monday. However, the man he thought was a hitman was actually an undercover ...
The contractor Vinas allegedly wanted to kill told Globe Rhode Island on Monday that he did not know his life was in danger until FBI agents paid his family a visit late last week. Advertisement.
Vinas did not work for his intended victim’s company, the contractor said. He had referred Vinas to a friend for an $11,000 plumbing job in 2019. The friend paid Vinas $8,000 as a down payment, but Vinas didn’t finish the work, so the friend hired someone else, the contractor said.